Untitled Drawing for Frame Cartouche (Plant Motif)

Description

Roussel created two variant emblems for the blank cartouche at top center—this cluster of silhouetted flowers resembling anemones, in black, and a salamander before a rising sun, rendered in colors that include metallic pigment.

Untitled Drawing for Frame Cartouche (Plant Motif)

Theodore Roussel

1899/1908

Accession Number

211096

Medium

Brush and black ink on semi-transparent tan wove paper

Dimensions

9.2 × 20.1 cm (3 5/8 × 7 15/16 in.)

Classification

drawings (visual works)

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Gift of Meg and Mark Hausberg